According to a November 8 filing with the Surface Transportation Board, Watco will operate 49 miles of Norfolk Southern’s Ithaca Secondary between Sudbury, Pa., and Lansing, N.Y., as the Ithaca Central Railroad.

A new RailUSA shortline called Florida, Gulf & Atlantic Railroad will operate the 373-miles of former CSX trackage across the Florida panhandle, according to a November 6 filing with the Surface Transportation Board.

John E. Gruber, a noted photographer and author who helped move railroad photography into America’s art museums and the founder of the Center for Railroad Photography & Art, died on October 9 after a battle with cancer. He was 82.

Former Denver & Rio Grande Western “Tunnel Motor” 5401 was retrieved from storage at the MillerCoors plant in Golden, Colo. and moved across the valley to its final home at the Colorado Railroad Museum on August 22.

According to a November 8 filing with the Surface Transportation Board, Watco will operate 49 miles of Norfolk Southern’s Ithaca Secondary between Sudbury, Pa., and Lansing, N.Y., as the Ithaca Central Railroad.